Eliot Spitzer did not vote in the 2012 election, despite writing a column days before Nov. 6 about the importance of civic engagement and why he would vote for President Barack Obama, the New York Post reports Thursday.

The former New York governor did not vote in person or by absentee, the Post found.

A spokeswoman told the Post that Spitzer couldn’t make it to the polls because he had to to be in San Francisco to be a co-anchor of Current TV’s round-table election coverage alongside Al Gore.

“That’s why he didn’t vote. There was not time for him to vote or get an absentee ballot,” spokeswoman Lisa Linden told the Post.

But according to voting rules, Spitzer had other options. He could have showed up at the local board last minute and filled out an absentee ballot up to a day before the election.

In the 2012 Slate column Spitzer wrote about how Obama was the easy choice over Republican nominee Mitt Romney and that it was “time to choose.”

“We’ve heard all the promises, excuses, smart lines, and grotesque misrepresentations. Now it’s time to choose,” Spitzer wrote.

Spitzer announced Sunday he is running for New York City comptroller and a recent poll shows him leading the race. But in order to make it on the Sept. 10 Democratic primary ballot, Spitzer has to gather 3,750 signatures by Thursday.